Dollingstown

Dollingstown, County Armagh.

Dollingstown War Memorial is located beside the A3 (Belfast Road) adjacent to Gilpin Park, Dollingstown.

Dollingstown and Ballymacateer, comprising an area of roughly a square mile, contributed over 100 men to the British forces in the Great War. Of these, twenty did not come back. Although only a few miles from the town of Lurgan, when the question of a memorial for the Parish was raised they at Dollingstown felt that they had given so many men to the cause that they would prefer to have a memorial of their own. The memorial (which was executed by Messrs. Purely and Millard, Belfast from the design of Mr. Max Clarke, M.R.I.B.A, London), is of Portland stone, and stands some 14 to 15 feet (4.75m) high.

The inscription on the memorial is ;-

In Proud and Never-Dying Memory of the Men who Fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

Sergeant Herbert Johnston, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Sergeant Wilson Fulton, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Private Moses Bell, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Private William Carson, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Private Harry McCormack, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Private Thomas McKinley, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Second-Lieutenant Ivan Watson, Royal Irish Rifles	Lance-Corporal Samuel Hamilton, Royal Irish Rifles
Lance-Corporal William McConnell, Royal Irish Rifles	Rifleman Joshua Bell, Royal Irish Rifles
Rifleman Thomas Bunting, Royal Irish Rifles	Rifleman John Cousins, Royal Irish Rifles
Rifleman W. J. King, Royal Irish Rifles	Rifleman Thomas Smith, Royal Irish Rifles
Rifleman Thomas Wells, Royal Irish Rifles	Rifleman Samuel Wells, Royal Irish Rifles
Rifleman Thomas Gregson, Royal Irish Rifles	Private James Cousins, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Private Joseph King, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers	Lieutenant Ernest Johnston, Staffords

At the foot of the memorial is the inscription; -

This Memorial Was Erected by their Friends in Dollingstown and Ballymacateer.

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

In addition to the names recorded on the memorial as given above, the local Roll of Honour contains the names of the following survivors:-

Joseph Bell, Henry Bell, George Boyce Thomas Buntings Samuel Carson, Michael Connor, John Cousins, Thomas Cunningham, James Conway, William Clarke, Thomas Chambers, Samuel Dawson, William Dowds, James Dowds, James Douie, Robert Douie, Harry Douie, Thomas Douie, James Ferris, sen.; James Ferris, sen.; Robert Ferguson, Samuel Fulton, David Fulton, George Guiney, Jos. Hamilton, Jas. Hamilton, George Hamilton, Jas. Hall, William Hall, Richard Hayden, Perry Johnston, Edward Kennedy, Alexander Kennedy, David King, Samuel Kerr, R. H. Lawther, Jas. Lawther, George Lawther, Thomas Henry Lawther, Wm. McIlwaine, Wm. McKinley, Jas. McKinley, Thomas Malone (S.), Thomas Malone (J.), John Malone, William Malone, David Magill, William Mathers (S.), William Mathers, Harry Mullin, Tom Mullin, Jas. Mullin, William Neill, Jas. Neill, Tom Neill, Hamilton Neill, John Neill, William Orbinson, Jas. Pepper, A. Patton, Edward Rooney, Jas. Roberts, Frank Roberts, Robert Rooney, P. Rooney, William Taylor, George Wilson, George Wright and Walter Watson.

1939 - 1945

Flight Lieutenant H. de L Watson.	Flight Officer A. W. V. Green
Gunner T. G. Anderson	Gunner G. E. Banks
Yeoman Sigmaller G. P. McDowell	Elizabeth Osborne N.A.A.F.I.


	Also on the monument is inscribed ;- Robert McDowell 16^th Royal Irish Rifles. Murdered County Wicklow 22^nd June 1922.

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